--- description: The promise of new Pottermore content for 12 days up until Christmas seems to be falling flat. title: Harry Potter Fans Are Not Happy with J.K. Rowling image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltafa5b4ce4d455b47/69876f128e060175dd4593f4/jk-rowling.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Harry Potter Fans Grumble at J.K. Rowling Over Today's Pottermore 'Story' by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 16, 2014 2:40 PM CUT  Joanne "JK" Rowling attends a charity evening hosted by herself to raise funds for 'Lumos' a charity helping to reunite children in care with their families in Eastern Europe at Warner Bros Studios in London on Nov. 9, 2013. Joanne "JK" Rowling attends a charity evening hosted by herself to raise funds for 'Lumos' a charity helping to reunite children in care with their families in Eastern Europe at Warner Bros Studios in London on Nov. 9, 2013.Danny E. Martindale—Getty Images by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 16, 2014 2:40 PM CUT Harry Potter fans were disappointed to learn that J.K. Rowling has merely posted a riddle and no new story this morning, after purportedly promising to post new content on fansite Pottermore for the 12 days leading up to Christmas. Today’s riddle is a simple one: _In an orphanage in London where Tom Riddle resides; A suited wizard visits him, it’s quite a surprise. After showing the boy magical tricks of all sorts, Which future Headmaster offers him a place at Hogwarts?_ Entering ‘Professor Dumbledore’ will grant fans access to a popular scene from the Half Blood Prince, when Dumbledore uses a pensieve, a magical object used to review memories, back to the moment he recruited Voldemort, neé Tom Riddle, for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Alas, solving the riddle will only get you as far as one can get through Pensieve, which means no interacting with the characters and, in this case, no new content. You’ll get a look at a young Tom Riddle, an unknown woman and Dumbledore and Harry studying the scene. Fans have apparently gotten quite greedy; eager for new content, the comments include rants like “I would rather wait ages for amazing new material than get filler so frequently” to “What is the purpose of this? It is a waste of time” and even “Seriously? That’s it? What happened to the Pottermore excitement? It’s like they aren’t putting any effort in anymore.” The _Daily Telegraph_‘s [Alice Vincent](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/11289347/Harry-Potter-Pottermore-latest-updates-live.html "undefined") thinks that “if Pottermore members are entering \[the scene\] through a Pensieve, like Harry and Dumbledore are, then they can’t interact with the memory. So why would we be able to interact with it, if Harry can’t?” She has a great point. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll have something to make of the memory. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3635639/harry-potter-jk-rowling-dumbledore/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3635639/harry-potter-jk-rowling-dumbledore/"},"headline":"Harry Potter Fans Grumble at J.K. 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